Happy Catholic Schools Week! In honor of this special week, we will begin reciting prayers in Spanish starting this week in grades 1-8, as per the diocesan curriculum. Praying these prayers each Spanish class period will be part of the daily participation grade.

1st-2nd Grade: The Sign of the Cross

3rd-4th Grade: Glory Be

5th Grade: Our Father

6th Grade: Prayer Before Meals

7th-8th Grade: Hail Mary

Also being covered this week in Spanish classes:

Pre-K: We will be reading and discussing the book, “Te amo sol, Te amo luna.”

Kindergarten: We will begin learning food vocabulary through a new song.

1st Grade: We are reading and discussing the book, “El Mar.”

2nd Grade: We are working on the vocabulary for parts of the body.

3rd Grade: We will play bingo to practice our vocabulary for parts of the body.

4th Grade: We discussed Spanish leave-takings and the country of Mexico in Lesson 2 of our textbook.

5th Grade: We will finish Lesson 8 on Wednesday, in begin working on adjectives with Lesson 9.

6th Grade: We will finish our work on Unit 3, in preparation for a quiz on the irregular verbs ir, dar, and estar, as well as the Spanish word “a” and the readings on pages 112-117 in the textbook on Monday, February 2.

7th Grade: We continue working on the Present Progressive tense on Monday, and will introduce the verbs saber and conocer on Wednesday.

8th Grade: We begin Lesson 6 this week with the study of reflexive verbs.